Henry Meredith

Step back in time to the Old West and explore traditional cowpunching and the songs that my father used to sing that described his way of life and simpler times. He loved music and would like to have been a musician, but cowpunching as a career chose him when he was still in university. He worked on fall and spring roundups to pay for his tuition, but he eventually abandoned his studies in law, as that path was not to his liking. Enjoying nature and the outdoors, he admitted that "To be a cowboy, all you have to do is be smarter than a cow!" He celebrated his musical interests by marrying a musical teacher and raising three musical children, one of whom (the author) he taught how to play the cornet, and all of whom marveled at his prodigious memory for words and melodies, and relished listening to, or singing along with, his singular rich bass voice. 'A Cowboy and His Songs' is both a scholarly compendium of the heritage of the Old West and a historical document of bygone days. Saddle up for a ride with Hank Meredith as his unaccompanied songs bring the past back to life.